Shane van Gisbergen certified for the 2025 NASCAR Cup Collection playoffs together with his second profession victory on the circuit, dominating the inaugural race at Mexico Metropolis.
The Trackhouse Racing driver grew to become the tenth driver to win in 2025 together with his first prime 5 this season (his earlier finest was a sixth at Circuit of the Americas).
After successful in his Cup debut on the streets of downtown Chicago in 2023, van Gisbergen earned his second victory in his thirtieth begin. He led a race-high 60 of 100 laps to grow to be the thirty third driver to win a number of Cup races on highway programs (and the eighth to win their first two races on highway programs). He additionally joined Fireball Roberts and Chase Elliott because the third driver with two inaugural highway or road course wins.
The win by van Gisbergen will shake up the regular-season factors standings. He had entered the Mexico Metropolis race in thirty third place and 130 factors under the cutline — the second-deepest deficit for a playoff driver to beat with a win (Harrison Burton was ranked thirty fourth earlier than his Daytona win in 2024.
The margin of victory was 16.567 seconds, the biggest in Cup since Texas in November 2009 (25.686 seconds) and the biggest on a highway course since Riverside in 1979 (32.9 seconds).
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